The Retreat

Well, I'm back! Did you miss me? This weekend the school had its annual winter retreat, I'm not going to tell you it was amazing or the other thing, you'll just have to decide for yourselves.

PROS.

The food was certainly a step up from Sodexo

I actually slept

The Worship services were amazing (Great Guitarist, Great Speaker)

The slopes were all powder, and there was a blizzard (this made it possible for some of the most crazy random happenstances ever)

I actually feel good about my snowboarding abilities now


Cons.

Well ... more like one big con. Okay, so this was my first time on a T bar lift with a snow board. I got over to the lift. I got in front of the line, and began preparation for impact.

1. Identification on my person (For the coroner) *check
2. Headgear (Not that it would help) *check
3. Underwear (Just so my mother knows I died with clean clothing on) *check

The seconds passed by, one, one one hundredth, one and one millionth... Brace yourself! Bang it hit me (quite literally). And low and behold i began to rise up the hill to my great glee, I mean sure I almost fell off like 6 times on the ascent but hey I made it to the top in front of our group, and just as I prepared to celebrate Mr. Bowen pointed at me and said, "SSSSSOOOOONNNN, you have bloody nose"...Niagara falls would have been more exact. For the next 20 minutes I lay down in the snow tying to get the bloody thing to stop ... well bleeding. Of course all of the BFA guys went down the hill, abandoning me to die in the blizzard. I must have had like 50 Germans poking at me to see if I was still alive. After the bleeding stopped, excitedly I got to my feet and began to finally get some of that powder. I felt like I needed real action, so I took what turned out to be the black diamond of the resort and ended up face-planting like 4 times. TII (This is Isaac)

Isaac wuz Here

Okay, I know it's been a year since I posted anything here. So, after long (mind you it was long...) internal deliberation I have decided to post an update! Drum roll please. I'm living in Germany, the home of true strudel and bratwurst among other things... attending one of the coolest American schoo... or primarily American ... Korean? ... I'll make up my mind on that one later. I'm an honorary member of HBR (My dorm) and the wresting team. Yep, that's life on my end...well at least until I can think up of something slightly more interesting or humorous to say... until then I give my reagards to all you reader's and bid you adue.

Space Twittering?

Astronaut Mike Massimino has boldly gone where no man has gone before: He sent the first Twitter message from space.

Massimino began using the microblogging Web site a few months ago, updating his followers on the day-to-day life of an astronaut and his training for the upcoming mission.
Massimino and the other six members of the space shuttle Atlantis' trip to service the Hubble Space Telescope launched Monday. His first Twitter message (called a "tweet") from space communicated his excitement about the launch — in under 140 characters (one of the site's constraints).

"Launch was awesome!!" Massimino tweeted Tuesday via his Twitter alter ego @Astro_Mike. "I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!"

Read the rest Here

I thought yall might like to se me in my new work clothes.  Enjoy, Green Giant

Leaving for Austin

Hi Yall!  Just a quick post to say that I will be leaving for the State Capitol for 2 weeks.  I probably won't keep posting while there.  But I will try to update my facebook to keep everyone posted.  

While I'm there I plan to 1. learn about politics in Texas. 2. Learn the political system in Texas. & 3. Meet one or two big names in Texas politics.  

Till next time!

Green Giant

Thanks for the Educational Emails!

I just want to thank all of you for your educational emails over the past years.

Thanks to you, I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a  paper towel.

I can't use the remote in a hotel room because I don't know what the last  person was doing while flipping through the channels. 

I can't sit down on the hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on it since it was last washed.

I can't enjoy lemon slices in my tea or on my seafood anymore because lemon peels have been found to contain all kinds of nasty germs including feces. 

I have trouble shaking hands with someone who has been driving because the number one pass-time while driving alone is picking your nose.

Eating a Little Debbie sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how many gallons of trans fats I have consumed over the years.

I can't touch any woman's purse for fear she has placed it on the floor of a public bathroom.

I must send my special thanks to whoever sent me the one about poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope! that needs sealing.

Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown)  who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the  $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out  for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water  buffalo on a hot day.

Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward  an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer can buy gasoline without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these ! products are atheists who refuse to put 'Under God'  on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup of water in the microwave  anymore because it will blow up in my face...disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for or which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan .

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their  recipe.

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown   African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.

And thanks to your great advice, I can't ever pick up $5.00 dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician...

Have a wonderful day...

Oh, by the way.....

A German scientist from Argentina , after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mail with their hand on the mouse.

Thanks!

Green Giant